Brammer supplies engineering products and services to manufacturers across Europe.
They required a multi-lingual purchasing hub capable of enabling each of its European business units to locate, purchase and deliver products to each of its separate warehouses located across Europe.

Brammer chose netvoyager ’s internet based procurement solution to link the different business systems across the organisation.

Tangible benefits to the Business

• Improve the availability and range of products supplied to customers
• Faster response time to customer orders
• Reduce the cost of inter-trade between businesses
• Faster sourcing by cross-referenced product data reduces the time spent locating products
• Multi-lingual transaction hub ensures the effective flow of information between the European businesses
• System to system links for the larger organisations reduces the overhead for manual re-keying of orders

Each of the major business units now successfully inter-trade by utilising system to system links. User access to the Procurement Transaction hub allows smaller businesses to manually enter purchasing requirements to each of the other businesses.

The key elements of netvoyager ’s electronic buying hub are illustrated below:

• A process flow enabled,once only entry of data
• Stock availability search
• Stock transfer request and tracking facility
• Automatic email alerts and notifications
• Seamless interface to heterogeneous ERP systems via XML
• Management information and performance measurement reporting